June 2013 – what would you like to read?

We are in the throes of Ulysses and the end of our study, sadly, is in sight – and what a journey we have had!

I am joining a group of the Ulysses Salon members in a trip to Dublin to celebrate Bloomsday on June 16th. After that, the Salon schedule is open with Salon studies finishing for the summer on July 1st– so WHAT would you like to read? And what schedule appeals? Available times for any of the studies listed below include Tuesday and Thursdays day time (1-3 PM) & evenings (8-10 PM).

Please email your preference by email either in reply to the newsletter or using the contact me page.

Next weekend (Sunday 18th of May), I will announce a schedule based on reader preferences. Set yourself off into the more reflective rhythms of summer with some time for the mind…

In other news: the Salon website is in the process of being re-built (with thanks to LJ Filotrani of Muswell Hill Media) so in the coming weeks there will be a new look– we may have pictures again! And dazzling lights! And song! Feedback and suggestions always welcomed…

Possible studies:
Brief Poetry

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
As one Salon member offered: ‘I have messed up my life in coffee spoons… do I dare to eat a beach?’ A lively group broke the surface of this poem at The Fields beneath Poetry Salon last month– but there is so much more to say and consider… and we could visit Yeats’ “The Second Coming” in reflection.

Walt Whitman– selections from Song of Myself a vast, galloping and exuberant style infuses Whitman’s work–but there is more than noise here: Whitman’s attempt to embrace human experience in words creates a gorgeous song.

Short Stories

“The Liar” by Tobias Wolf
“A Distant Episode” by Paul Bowles
or…?

Short(er) novels

The Great Gatsby with the Luhrman film just about to crash into the theatres, this may be a good moment to engage in the gorgeous words of this provocative read.

The Awakening novella by Kate Chopin
Others?